Unfortuntely this is not quite the case. There are of course paedophiles who are gentically hard wired that way but usually attraction to children comes from lack of successs with women. Priests have sexual desires. They are not able to fulfill them with adult women (or men) so they are directed towards a subsitute- children.

Outside the priesthood there are just some men who cannot get with women. They are usually sad and inadequate and children are impressionable and powerless compared with an adult woman.

Please don't repsond with exceptions. I know there are child abusers out there who are normal and successful with women and life in general. It is a general point not an absolute. I understand the complexities of human psychology- although not to the degree which I would like to.

@PalacinkyPDX I agree with you. Many pedophiles have been molested as children. They can be in any walk of life but gravitate to professions where there is children. Many men choose to molest boys though they say they are not gay.

and equally if you devote your life to charity and impeccable moral standards but worship the wrong God you're done for. Or no God at all.

Mother Thersea comes to mind. She was a Christian but the wrong kind. Catholics are out.

@rovingamber I've always said that Mother Teresa was a VERY DANGEROUS woman! In the middle of horrible slums, she preached ''the rhythm plan" and she denied her poor patients pain medications, saying there was ''nobility in suffering and in poverty." She courted the press of the world but did NOT behave in a very Jesusish manner.

@rovingamber mother teresa was a horrid woman.